ORGANIZATIONS: The Crusaders

Dr. Francis E. Townsend's 13-year-old
vision of pie-in-the-sky was back again, as plain as mother's lemon
meringue. Last week, 5,000 "senior citizens" stormed Washington for the
first postwar national convention of the Townsend clubs of America.
Without glasses, any one of them could see the vision of pensions for
all citizens over 60. The trick was to make the 80th Congress see it
too.

The Townsendites met in Washington's 5,000-seat Uline Arena. The meeting
got off with a whoop when two exuberant ladies saw California's placid,
lantern-jawed Dr. Townsend, the 80-year-old founder,...